One More Reason Velonews is Irrelevant

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http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/zajicek-in-the-centre-of-a-usada-storm

People who mention the "Z" word in the comments section have their comments scrubbed within 5 minutes. Cyclingnews does an article about it.

The Colorado frat boy posse is becoming more parochial and less relevant by the second. Sooner or later, they're going to actually have to report on this thing.

And just to pile on, why the hell does Cyclingnews have results from races like Gila up before Velonews?

 

[BotanyBay]

The Colorado frat boy posse is becoming more parochial and less relevant by the second. Sooner or later, they're going to actually have to report on this thing.

Can we interest you in a nice cyclocross article instead?

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

I stopped using VeloNews during lunchbreaks at work because our company firewall scrubbed out many of their links, and this filtering process caused their webpage to load very slowly... even with a screamer for a PC.

 

[shouldawouldacoulda]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/zajicek-in-the-centre-of-a-usada-storm
And just to pile on, why the hell does Cyclingnews have results from races like Gila up before Velonews?

Because all the employees are now in UTC -6,7 or 8 time zones. They've gone all corporate and only work in regular business hours (for the most part). CN has staff active in Europe who are up at writing 8 hrs before VN staff have gotten out of bed - when most bike news is happening. I guess VN has 'Euro Hoody' in Spain. But their webmaster is still sleeping - I guess Hoody doesn't have the authority to hit the 'publish' button in the CMS.

I have no clue why they can't get Gila stories online before CN. That's a real mystery.

 

[Willy_Voet]

I stopped reading VeloSnooze in 2000. Glad to know I haven't missed anything in 10+ years.

 

[Oldman]

I stopped using VeloNews during lunchbreaks at work because our company firewall scrubbed out many of their links, and this filtering process caused their webpage to load very slowly... even with a screamer for a PC.

I stopped using Velonews when they stocked softer two ply tissue in our office men's room.

 

[scribe]

Can we interest you in a nice cyclocross article instead?

Is that Dim in the sand?

 

[Anonymous]

I stopped reading VeloSnooze in 2000. Glad to know I haven't missed anything in 10+ years.

+1

Waste of paper and bandwidth for more than 10 years. I remember when I would impatiently wait around for the next issue in the early 90's. Then they became little more than the official publication of the Lance Armstrong Fan Club, and I lost interest.

 

[BroDeal]

+1

Waste of paper and bandwidth for more than 10 years. I remember when I would impatiently wait around for the next issue in the early 90's. Then they became little more than the official publication of the Lance Armstrong Fan Club, and I lost interest.

True, but I think it has become a lot worse since Competitor acquired them.

 

[sartain]

I stopped using Velonews when they stocked softer two ply tissue in our office men's room.

I vote this the post of the week!

 

[runninboy]

True, but I think it has become a lot worse since Competitor acquired them.

+1 Competitor was founded by this stooge named Bob Babbitt. He used to write these fluff pieces on triathletes & duathletes that used to make my blood boil they were so inept. One in particular stuck with me.
He reported watching this duathlete, Kenny Souza run a workout . It was repeat quarter miles in 60 seconds and he did 8 with a minute and a half rest. Not earth shattering as any decent high school miler could do it.
But triathlon had the rep then as a sport where guys couldnt do anything great but 3 things ok.
So Bob made the leap that the rest wasnt that much and Kenny made it look so easy that he could probably run under 60 seconds for 4 consequetive quarter miles making him a sub 4 minute miler and thus a "world class runner"
WTF?
My freshman year in college we ran 56 second repeat quarters with the same rest
but we ran 20 of them
none of us was world class. But we all could bury Kenny Souza and any of the other triathlete/duathlete losers. LA also. My God i think he said he never broke 5 minutes for the mile, i did that in 7th grade. In college i averaged 5 minutes a mile for the entire CA cross country championships and couldnt even see the winner i was so far back...
and i was not a distance runner.

It was like saying because some fred could ride up Alp D Huez on a triple he should be in the Tour next year.

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

I stopped using Velonews when they stocked softer two ply tissue in our office men's room.

LOL! No bull spit.

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

Is that Dim in the sand?

I'm relatively new to this forum, and I've seen the reference to Dim before. Who the heck is Dim? just wondering.

 

[Ferminal]

I'm relatively new to this forum, and I've seen the reference to Dim before. Who the heck is Dim? just wondering.

TeamSkyFans... he had a FAIL experience in his first cyclo-cross outing

 

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http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/zajicek-in-the-centre-of-a-usada-storm

People who mention the "Z" word in the comments section have their comments scrubbed within 5 minutes. Cyclingnews does an article about it.

The Colorado frat boy posse is becoming more parochial and less relevant by the second. Sooner or later, they're going to actually have to report on this thing.

And just to pile on, why the hell does Cyclingnews have results from races like Gila up before Velonews?

Velonews needs new leadership. They tend to hire people based on how well they do in the lunchtime group ride rather than on their journalistic skills although I can't say they're a part of the Omerta when it comes to doping - they do report on it.

What they did in the Phil Z. case was wrong because they treated him like some kind of rape victim. The guy was charged and went to trial on doping charges. Just because he wasn't found guilty in the initial hearing doesn't mean they shouldn't have reported it.

This would be the equivalent of not reporting on the Landis case until he was found guilty.

It makes no sense from a journalistic or policy standpoint. Velonews is treating a non-analytical positive charge completely different than an analytical positive. This is indefensible.

Likely just some pseudo-legal logic from the resident lawyer Pelican (Charles Pelkey).